Each of the three women lost a leg in the bombings on April 15, which claimed the lives of three people and injured 264. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a police shootout, are suspected of conducting the attack.

Arts and culture magazine Rolling Stone recently caused controversy by featuring an image of Dzhokhar on its front cover along with the strapline: "How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster."
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The publication defended its decision, saying: "The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens."